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It March Madness Day Four! What started with 68 teams on Selection Sunday has been trimmed to 24 squads remaining. And after the weekend, we’ll be down to the Sweet 16. WJPA-AM (1450) is your home for the NCAA Men’s & Women’s Basketball Championships. Our coverage starts at noon Sunday and continues until the final buzzer of the Alabama/Texas Tech game sounds sometime around midnight.

Second Round, Sunday, March 22
2-Purdue > 7-Miami (FL), 79-69
2:35 pm 2-Iowa State vs. 7-Kentucky
5:05 pm 4-Kansas State vs. 5-St. John’s
6:00 pm 3-Virginia vs. 6-Tennessee
7:00 pm 1-Florida vs. 9-Iowa
7:40 pm 1-Arizone vs. 9-Utah State
8:35 pm 2-UConn vs. 7-UCLA
9:35 pm 4-Alabama vs. 5-Texas Tech

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Sidney Crosby and Rickard Rakell scored in a shootout and the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Winnipeg Jets 5-4. Pittsburgh, which is jockeying for playoff positioning, earned an extra point in the shootout for the second time this season. The Penguins have points in seven of their last eight games and 21 of their last 25. Arturs Silovs, who made 21 saves, stopped Jonathan Toews and Gustav Nyquist in the shootout. Connor Hellebuyck, making his 11th start in 12 games, had 26 saves for the Jets, who have lost three straight and five of their last seven games.

PALM HARBOR, Fla. (AP) — Sungjae Im was in position for a wire-to-wire victory in the Valspar Championship at Innisbrook after a slow start in his return from a wrist injury. Brandt Snedeker was right beside him in the final pairing — with a hot new putter in the bag. Im holed a sweeping 13-foot birdie putt on the par-4 18th hole Saturday for a 2-under 69 and a two-stroke lead over Snedeker, the 45-year-old U.S. Presidents Cup captain playing on a sponsor exemption, and David Lipsky. Snedeker birdied three of the first four holes in a 67, and Lipsky had a 70. After missing two straight cuts in his return, Im led by a stroke after each of the first two days. He has an 11-under 202 total.